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Money in Sixteenth-century Florence

By: Carlo M. Cipolla,Professor Carlo M Cipolla

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Money in Sixteenth-century Florence

By: Carlo M. Cipolla,Professor Carlo M Cipolla

The clarification of the monetary system will be of absolutely essential use to all historians who work on Florence during the later Renaissance, including historians of art, literature, and music."--Richard A. Goldthwaite, Johns Hopkins University

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Univ of California Press

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0520062221

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9780520062221

Miasmas and Disease

Public Health and the Environment in the Pre-industrial Age

By: Carlo M. Cipolla,Professor Carlo M Cipolla

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Miasmas and Disease

Public Health and the Environment in the Pre-industrial Age

By: Carlo M. Cipolla,Professor Carlo M Cipolla

This book explores the themes of health, medicine, and the origins of infectious disease in pre-industrial Italy. Using the papers of the Magistrato alla Sanita, the Florence Health Magistracy, covering the first 30 years of the 17th century, the author recreates the ecological and medical environment of the Florentine countryside.

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116

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Yale University Press

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0300048068

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9780300048063

Nihilist Order

The Intellectual Roots of Totalitarianism

By: Professor David Ohana

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Nihilist Order

The Intellectual Roots of Totalitarianism

By: Professor David Ohana

The explosive combination of nihilist leanings together with a craving for totalitarianism was an ideal of philosophers, cultural critics, political theorists, engineers, architects and aesthetes long before it materialised in flesh and blood, not only in technology, but also in fascism, Nazism, bolshevism and radical European political movements. "The Nihilist Order", originally published in three hardcover volumes and now published in a consolidated paperback edition with an encompassing new Introduction, inspired excellent review endorsements, both amongst the academic and public spheres -- and has been heralded as a great achievement in European intellectual and cultural history.

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641

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Liverpool University Press

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1836241038

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9781836241034

Shopping in the Renaissance

Consumer Cultures in Italy 1400-1600

By: Evelyn S. Welch,Professor of Renaissance Studies Evelyn Welch,Lecturer Evelyn Welch

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Shopping in the Renaissance

Consumer Cultures in Italy 1400-1600

By: Evelyn S. Welch,Professor of Renaissance Studies Evelyn Welch,Lecturer Evelyn Welch

Shopping was as important in the Renaissance as it is in the 21st century. This book breaks new ground in the area of Renaissance material culture, focussing on the marketplace in its various aspects, ranging from middle-class to courtly consumption and from the provision of foodstuffs to the acquisition of antiquities and holy relics. It asks how men and women of different social classes went out into the streets, squares and shops to buy the goods they needed and wanted on a daily or on a once-in-a-lifetime basis during the Renaissance period. Drawing on a detailed mixture of archival, literary and visual sources, she exposes the fears, anxieties and social possibilities of the Renaissance marketplace. Thereafter, Welch looks at the impact these attitudes had on the developing urban spaces of Renaissance cities, before turning to more transient forms of sales such as fairs, auctions and lotteries. In the third section, she examines the consumers themselves, asking how the mental, verbal and visual images of the market shaped the business of buying and selling. Finally, the book explores two seemingly very different types of commodities - antiquities and indulgences, both of which posed dramatic challenges to contemporary notions of market value and to the concept of commodification itself.

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Yale University Press

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0300107528

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9780300107524

The Birth of the Orchestra : History of an Institution, 1650-1815

History of an Institution, 1650-1815

By: Music History and Literature San Francisco Conservatory of Music John Spitzer Chair,Neal Zaslaw Professor of Music Cornell University

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The Birth of the Orchestra : History of an Institution, 1650-1815

History of an Institution, 1650-1815

By: Music History and Literature San Francisco Conservatory of Music John Spitzer Chair,Neal Zaslaw Professor of Music Cornell University

This is the story of the orchestra, from 16th-century string bands to the "classical" orchestra of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Spitzer and Zaslaw document orchestral organization, instrumentation, social roles, repertories, and performance practices in Europe and the American colonies, concluding around 1800 with the widespread awareness of the orchestra as a central institution in European life.

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670

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199719918

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9780199719914

The Dawn of Political Nihilism

Volume I of The Nihilist Order

By: Professor David Ohana

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The Dawn of Political Nihilism

Volume I of The Nihilist Order

By: Professor David Ohana

In the turbulent period between 1870 and 1930, the contours on modernity were taking shape, especially the connections between technology, politics and aesthetics. The trilogy The Nihilist Order traces the genealogy of the nihilist-totalitarian syndrome. Until now, nihilism and totalitarianism were considered opposites: one an orderless state of affairs, the other a strict regimented order. On closer scrutiny, however, a surprising affinity can be found between these two concepts that dominated the history of the first half of the twentieth century. Starting with Nietzsche's philosophy, this book traces the development of an intellectual school characterised by the paradoxical dual purpose of a wish to destroy, coupled with a strong desire to create imposing structures. This explosive combination of nihilist leanings together with a craving for totalitarianism was an ideal of philosophers, cultural critics, political theorists, engineers, architects and aesthetes long before it materialised in flesh and blood, not only in technology, but also in fascism, Nazism, bolshevism and radical European political movements. Friedrich Nietzsche, Georges Sorel, the Italian Futurists, led by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, and Ernst Jünger were all well-known intellectual and cultural figures. Here they are seen and understood in a different light, as creators of a modern political mythology that became a source of inspiration for belligerent ideological camps. Among the ideas propagated by this school, and later adopted by totalitarian regimes, were historical nihilism, a revolt against the rationalistic and universalistic pretensions of the Enlightenment, an affirmation of the dynamism of modern life, and the replacement of the traditional Judeo-Christian values of good and evil by other dualities such as authenticity and decadence. Concurrently there took place affirmation of the technological era, the creation of a 'new man' and a violent order, and the birth of a new political style in place of traditional world-views. When channelled into the political sphere, these aesthetic nihilist ideas paved the way for the rise of totalitarianism.

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Liverpool University Press

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1837642192

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9781837642199

Book's by Professor Carlo M Cipolla

Money in Sixteenth-century Florence

Money in Sixteenth-century Florence

Miasmas and Disease

Miasmas and Disease

Nihilist Order

Nihilist Order

Shopping in the Renaissance

Shopping in the Renaissance

The Birth of the Orchestra : History of an Institution, 1650-1815

The Birth of the Orchestra : History of an Institution, 1650-1815

The Dawn of Political Nihilism

The Dawn of Political Nihilism

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